Change of Title Order

We became aware of the fact that the film title should not appear at the end of the title sequence, and found a more appropriate order for the title sequence. I have decided to update our TimeToast timeline. 

Planning for Shooting Day 4

We have found bits in our opening sequence we do not like due to the amount of jump cuts that we have which does not allow the opening sequence flow freely.

We plan on shooting the establishing shot and Akrem's walking scenes at the beginning of next Wednesday's lesson. Shots will include Akrem moving his prop into his back pocket, himself walking, and an establishing shot of the college when Seun looks up when crossing the road to college.

Dan's feedback

• Suggest different establishing shot
• Shot of Ashley coming out of the coffee shop is very good
• Could have used the knife for comedy a little more 
• Would be nice if we have a close up of the knife 
• Make sure its a match cut and not a jump cut 
• Dan likes the shot of Shannon on the skateboard 
• cut shots of Seun crossing the road 
• If you show 1 person walking to the college show all character should be shown walking to the college 
• Try balance the amount of screen time we all get 

Under the SSEA Productions Ident

Editing Session 5

 

Today we plan to rearrange our titles over our shots in the correct order, however we first needed to complete adding all the right shots into Final Cut pro. We then went through the film numerous times and cut the shots to the appropriate length they needed to be in order for the film to run smoothly and look professional. This was a lengthly process as it was difficult to get the shot lengths exactly right so they fit with the before and after shot.

 

We also made our Under The SSEA Productions Ident for the beginning of our film in Motion, using the template of Satin and added this image for the background to represent Under The SSEA Group. 

Seun also made our films music in Garage Band and added it to our film. We feel the music fits really well for our film type. 

Feedback from Peers

Peer Feedback

Rizwana

Rizwana liked the fact that we used different shots so that it is not boring her.
She also mentioned that she liked the amount of camera time that each character got because it was enough time for each character to introduce themselves and their role within the title sequence. Rizwana  also liked our credits because it fit the theme well because its a high school drama.


Shakayla

wasn't able to tell Shannon was a hipster from her costume - so we plan on adding titles on what character is what to help the audience understand the role of each character.

No sound at the moment.
like the way you cut all Seun's exec travelling - developed since the last one.


Response to feedback.
In response to Shakayla's comment about not being able to tell what Shannon's character what, we are planning on adding Titles when each character arrives to help the audience understand the role of each character.

Editing Session 4

From the feedback we have received from Dan, we decided to reshoot the majority of our title sequence during the half term, and we began editing and including shots we had taken. We decided to reshoot the beginning of our title sequence on one side of the road, as we thought that there was difficulty when moving from one side to the other.
Today, we edited in all the successful shots we had taken and arranged them in chronological order. Next, we plan on rearranging our titles in an appropriate order.

Production Diary - Filming Session 3

Day 3 of filming - As we had to reshoot a few parts in our title sequence, we decided to film on the Tuesday of half term, where the weather was appropriate. We began with the princess character, making sure we included small assets that we could include so it did not drag on like our rough cut - this included shooting the character drinking from the coffee cup, scrolling through her phone, and a close up of her reaction to the main character. We then proceeded to shoot small aspects of each character, including hands going in pockets, point of view shots, close ups, etc. Then we were fortunate that the college gate was open, and we reshot the end scene, where some of the characters enter, then the camera pans up to the sky. 

Filming Day 3

Today we went to film all the scenes that we identified as weak and do not fit our film.
We had to get a new character in place of Emily, her name is Ashley and I feel as she played her role very well as she fit the character very well with her costume and she went a little over the top with the sun glasses and long jacket which matched our over the top fashion lover.

Change of Cast

We had planned on reshooting some of our title sequence during the half term. Unfortunately, Emily had gone away and was not in London at the time we planned to refilm. So, we asked someone (Ashley) else to play her part. Her outfit perfectly executed the role of the "princess". 

Jewellery and additional make up will be added to the character's costume.

Reflection on Production - Contribution

Throughout the production of our title sequence, I felt that I have been contributing a fair amount. I have been able to use social networking (Twitter) to create updates in terms of our filming and location. I also feel that I have helped into the content of our group blogs. A large part of my contribution was when editing and altering our title sequence on Final Cut Pro. I have managed to cut and fit in some shots, so that they seem almost seamless. I have been attending workshops during lunch times to edit our title sequence. I have also began to create our website through creating an account on Weebly. 

Reshooting Plans

Rough Cut & Feedback

This is our rough cut feedback that we received.
We already had feedback so we just reviewed what we had again.
Our initial rough cut and feedback has been embedded.

Blogging Health Check 2

"Good blogging so far. Your production diaries are really nice and detailed and I like the way that you considering problems and dealing with them, rather than just saying "we did x". and I like the way that you are taking note of my feedback as well - though I still don't think you've really gone to town on the costumes as much as possible. You can do diary entries as group posts but should also some add some short posts about your individual contributions. Also consider your skills development - what skills have you picked up since you began. Remember, workshop is open every day for you to add blogs. For your editing blogs, try and include a record of what you learn about Final Cut, different techniques you might try etc.

Remember what I said to you on Friday about the "unevenness " of your sequence so far. There are a lot of shots of Seun walking and much less of the encoutners with the vaiours other characters. Is there anything you can do to overcome this?"

From the group feedback we have been given, our next steps include refilming a few scenes inorder to make our title sequence flow and work evenly. We intend on cutting down some shots and including more elements that would interest our audience slightly more. We intend on using the workshops  to alter our mistakes in order to create a successful title sequence. 

Reshooting plans due to feedback from Rebecca

We plan to reshoot our work and go into our third filming day as we have found a lot of faults and random long scenes which are unnecessary  

Updated Feedback on Editing

Rebecca looked over what we have edited of our title sequence so far and she mentioned a few changes we should consider.

• Include footwalking
• Include head nodding listening to music
• Include adjusting rucksack strap
• Include shots of hand going in the pockets whilst walking
• Cut to character POV
• Framing: Rule of thirds
• cut to me and Intro me (Akrem) before I trip up seun up
• Shot of my (Akrem) foot and hands then lastly a shot of my face
• I disappeared in my shot with Seun after I trip him up so I need to trip him up and be seen walking behind him when he dusts himself,
• Close up of Seun dusting himself off.
• Skateboard scene with Shannon needs to be shot again 
• Don`t do it in real time (dont show the whole travel to college) 

What I did during our filming

During our filming I did 85% of the filming as I was the perfect height to hold the camera in place to keep the heads of the actors at the top of the shot.
I also played a sort of co director role with Seun as I spent much of my time placing characters in the right place to we could get the perfect shot.
I found it difficult to get the perfect shot when we first started filming so example I struggled to get the perfect height of our tallest character Seun but as we went on I slowly learnt how to get it perfect within  2 or 3 takes.

Me putting the camera on the tripod 

Figuring out the perfect shot frame  

Using the fig rig to film the walking scene 

My feedback

My feedback is from Dan.

"Good blogging so far" he especially mentioned our production diary as "really nice" and he mentioned   the amount of detail we put into it and how we considered all the problems that we may face and how we talked about how we will deal with them. He also liked that I took notes on his feedback when we presented our ideas to the class but he felt like we should "really go to town on the costumes as much as possible".
He also mentioned that we post too many group posts rather than individual post where we can make short posts on our individual contributions and talk about our skill development and what skills we have developed since we started filming.
He also mentioned the unevenness on the title sequence so far because there are too many boring shots of Seun just walking.

Editing Session 3

11/02/2015

Today we are editing the titles on our film as we have all the scenes in the order for the opening film.

We discussed different types of styles and ways to present the titles.

Suen was not present for this editing session.

We began experimenting with different styles of titles and the colour we went for Grey with a blue outline for our main title for our film which is Average.

We discussed as a group that this coming Friday we would re-shoot a few of the scenes for our film opening; including my scenes, the ending scene and the opening bit where the main character walks out of the station.

Reflecting on Editing session

Today we started adding titles in Motion and also used Final Cut pro.

And talked about the different ways to present our titles; we had our first example and idea of what the titles would look like. 

I liked this style of titles and felt like this might be the one we stick with throughout the whole opening scene, however we had the idea to change the colour of the titles with each character that appears; for example shaun's character would be blue and my character (being the girly, popular girl) would be pink. 

Blogging Health Check 2

Good blogging so far. Your production diaries are really nice and detailed and I like the way that you considering problems and dealing with them, rather than just saying "we did x". and I like the way that you are taking note of my feedback as well - though I still don't think you've really gone to town on the costumes as much as possible. You can do diary entries as group posts but should also some add some short posts about your individual contributions. Also consider your skills development - what skills have you picked up since you began. Remember, workshop is open every day for you to add blogs. For your editing blogs, try and include a record of what you learn about Final Cut, different techniques you might try etc.

Remember what I said to you on Friday about the "unevenness " of your sequence so far. There are a lot of shots of Seun walking and much less of the encoutners with the vaiours other characters. Is there anything you can do to overcome this?

14/20 - B

Dan

I will try and go to town with my outfit so that it has the full attention of the audience so we do not loose them 10 seconds into our opening sequence.

I would also like to refilm some more scenes because we didnt go to town with our costumes so we MUST reshoot the scenes!

I would also like to use workshop more to add blogs and work more on our editing as at the moment thats where I believe we are weak also I`d like to record a video of what I learnt about on final cut pro 

Editing - Film Title Planning

Using Motion, we began deciding on the main title's appearance at the end of our Title Sequence. We initially planned to include our 'Average' film title at the end of our opening sequence.
When deciding on colour, we considered our last shot, where we panned to the sky. So, we used colours that would stand out in front of our sky blue background with clouds.

We created a film title on motion then we transferred it to final cut pro.
After the transfer we looked to check if the colour we used for the background of the panning shot fit the colour of the sky but we noticed that the green we used did not fit at all.





We experimented with a lot of different colours but we decided to use the colour grey with a blue outline to match the colour of Seun's also known as Jack Austin headphones as he is the main character in our title sequence.

Editing Session 2

Today we worked on putting the remainder of our clips we shot together and also worked on the main title for our film which is "Average"
We looked into using different fonts , colours and animation ways to introduce it into the shot.
We also, as a group, decided that some of the shots did not work for our opening scene, for example, the shot with Emily across the street, and we will re shoot it so she is on the same side of the street at Seun so it will look better and work well. Another shot we will re shoot is the last scene with all of us together entering the school -  we will be reshooting next Wednesday.
In editing we realised many shots were just of Seun walking, so we need come up with ways to break these long shots.
Today we also considered our choice into the sound of our title sequence.

Blogging Health Check 2

Grade: A

40 posts at health check 2.  This is looking pretty good Emily - good work.  You have (almost!) kept up to date with everything.  What I need you to work on now is providing more in the way of information around who your target audience is for your film opening.  There is something very brief in the pitch but I need to see much more.  Use the YouGov profiler to identify your average audience member; interview some people from your target audience about what they would like to see in your film.  This should be done quite quickly so that it doesn't get lost in amongst the filming blog posts.
I also want to see lots more individual posts as we move into the filming and editing side of things - you should be reflecting on your contribution to the filming and editing after each session, thinking about what your input was, how successful you thought the session was and what you think needs to be done differently.  But generally - good work.  Well done.